Archives - 31 December 2012, Monday

San Jose, CA - May 17-19, 2013 Please join us in San Jose for Bitcoin 2013: The Future of Payments , presented by the Bitcoin Foundation. Events will kick off Friday evening, May 17, with a keynote presentation, followed by two days of conference activities on Saturday, May 18, and Su...

Posted by Lew Rockwell on December 31, 2012 12:21 PM A friend asks, "Now that you accept donations in Bitcoin , how has that worked out?" So far, the total is $1,899 in US dollars. Thanks to all who are participating. Bookmark/Share | Suggest a Link « Previous: Congratulations to Judg...

Bitcoin is one of the single greatest revolutionary concepts in... ever. Though unlikely to ever amount to much, it might be prudent to buy one bitcoin just in case. The major feature of this system is that it's decentralized. You do not live in a free country if your medium of exchan...

“Bitcoin does not have a central organization or authority. […] Rather than thinking of Bitcoin as a product released by a traditional corporation, it is more appropriate to think of it as a self-sustaining digital commodity, similar to gold.” - “The Bitcoin price did NOT fall to $0.0...

Dollar no longer legal tender since Federal Reserve Act has expired? Today at 12:03:38 AM #1 What do you think about this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act On 23rd December 2012 was the 99th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, and 99 years is the longest period of time...

What are the specific parts of a transaction(s) that need to be signed in the "inheritance scripting sample ". Specifically, can someone provide more detail on what exactly is signed of the transactions? I'm assuming there are approximately 3 transactions, but unsure of what is signed...

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If service1 trusts service0's green address implicitly, it can send the coins immediately; there is no advantage to waiting. The recipient can then decides how many blocks to wait for before treating the payment as confirmed. If service0's green address isn't trusted, service1 needs t...

Well after getting a new graphics card (7770) I can mine bitcoins at around 180-120Mhash/s Depending if I run it at full power or not. Now I thought I would try and mine myself an address using it but the miner just seems to not work. Using Vanitygen (Linked below) oclvanitygen I set ...

my question is about the difference between compressed keys and addresses, and i know it was addressed in another question but my question is less about the theory and more about how the keys are used practically in bitcoin. so heres what i did: i used dumpprivkey for an address (183T...

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Earlier in December, a European bitcoin exchange said it had been granted “payments service provider status” by French government officials. In other words, the French government considered the exchange to be like Paypal , or similar services. The exchange is called Bitcoin-Central. T...

Many were skeptical when, back in 2007, Canadian company D-Wave announced that it had built the world's first commercially viable quantum computer . Now a study published in the August issue of Nature's Scientific Reports co-authored by D-Wave and Harvard researchers proves the D-Wave...

Chris Larsen, who disrupted consumer finance in the 1990s and 2000s with E-Loan and Prosper, is seeking to shake up the industry again with Ripple, a peer-to-peer payment and lending system. Ripple looks to improve on Bitcoin, the decentralized virtual currency and payment system that...

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Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link. No begging. News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic. No referral links in submissions unless the site has never appeared on /r/Bitcoin .

Gold will close higher than $1800/oz at 29 March, 2013 Reference, http://www.kitco.com/market/ Info Opening date: Dec. 30, 2012 Bet deadline: March 27, 2013 end of day Eastern Time Event date: March 29, 2013 end of day Eastern Time Category: Economics Total agree bets: 0.10 Total disa...